Ch. 179

LAWS OF MARYLAND

OF THIS STATE MAY NOT CATCH MORE THAN A TOTAL OF 30 BUSHELS PER
BOAT IN ANY DAY. ANY PERSON ABOARD A BOAT ON WHICH MORE THAN 30
BUSHELS HAVE BEEN CAUGHT IN A DAY MAY BE CHARGED WITH VIOLATING
THIS SUBSECTION.

4-1017.

(a)  Unless a license first is obtained from the Department,
a person may not (1) have a fixed place of business buying
oysters and employing labor to prepare them for market, or (2)
buy more than 25 bushels of oysters PER YEAR from [a] ANY person
PERSONS who catches CATCH them from the natural oyster bars of

the State.

(b)  The Department may not issue a license required by this
section unless the applicant pays all taxes due for the prior

year under § 4-1020 of this subtitle.

(c)  A person may possess oysters caught from the natural
oyster bars of the State until one week past the close of the
season for taking oysters as established in § 4-1008 of this
article. Oysters may be caught by dredge or handscrape at any
time in Worcester County and may be shipped in the shell at any
time within or from that county. In counties where oysters may be
caught from leased areas at any time pursuant to the provisions
of Subtitle 11, a person may possess oysters at any time.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act is
hereby declared to be an emergency measure and necessary for the
immediate preservation of the public health and safety and having
been passed by a yea and nay vote supported by three-fifths of
all the members elected to each of the two Houses of the General.
Assembly, the same shall take effect from the date of its
passage.

Approved April 29, 1987.

CHAPTER 179

(Senate Bill 785)

AN ACT concerning

           Washington County - Commission for Women

FOR the purpose of establishing a Commission for Women in

Washington County; providing for the membership and terms of

the Commission; establishing the powers and duties of the

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